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1520 success
Authored by: Chas on Sep 07, '02 02:08:34PM

My 1520 runs quite nicely with the drivers from Gimp-print. Alas, it does not work directly from Adobe apps like Illustrator or Photoshop, you have to go through a two-step process of printing to pdf, then opening in Preview.app to print. The gimp-print project says they're working on this problem. For now, I can print quite nicely from apps like Mozilla, although I noticed a few bugs like transparent gifs aren't transparent (hard to tell if this is a Moz bug or gimp-print). I couldn't get the 1440 mode to run well, it had excessively dark output, so dark it soaked through the paper, but 720 works pretty well.
MacOS X is chock full 'o Unixy goodness. The CUPS system is built around regular lpr printing, and a real postscript rip like Ghostscript could easily be built into a printer queue. I'm just installing the new release of gimp-print on my brand new dual-1Ghz, machine, I'll report how it goes.
This may seem like a lot of trouble for an old color printer, but I love the 1520 exactly because it doesn't have all the fancy color matching systems with 6-color inks like the new models. I use it for CMYK proofing and it's perfect just for that task. I occasionally use a special UV-opaque ink that can print black on acetate to make 55-linescreen negatives, it's like a mini-imagesetter. I love my 1520!



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1520 success
Authored by: Chas on Sep 07, '02 02:28:09PM

Oh.. I suppose I should mention.. Like Frank suggested, I'm using the Epson USB cable, it plugs into the 1520's parallel port. The 1520 must be on and ready when you boot your Mac, or CUPS will not recognize it.



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